2025 Shizouka Hobby Show

[niteowl7710]

While the show doesn't happen until May, the things that will be featured at the show will start breaking cover as the pre-orders need to go up in advance of the summer. To that effect we got the Hasegawa show announcements (June/July delivery) today.

To whit the most significant items are a new tool Nissan Skyline R30. I'll do a victory lap here as this is a project I've been saying needed done since the introduction of their excellent R31 series. This plugs one of the last significant "crappy old kit" gaps in modern (80s and up) Skylines and the early Group A years of Japanese Touring Championship action. 

Also featured the first racing version of the new tool EF Civic line - the factory stock kit was just released last week.

[niteowl7710]

[Luc Janssens]

10 minutes ago, niteowl7710 said:

Remember as a kid having a modelkit of this one, but don't remember which manufacturer and if it was a two or four door.

Edited March 28 by Luc Janssens

[fumi]

Long expected and long overdue.  As usual they will release the zenki under regular series number and the Iron Mask that everyone wanted as special release afterwards, probably six months later.  There should also be a couple of Group A cars and a few custom versions that suspiciously resemble the lead cars in a certain police show down the road.

[BVC500]

Thanks!

[Chuck Kourouklis]

My God, I swear Hasegawa could announce the release of a half-scale dented can of Sapporo and I'd be like OoOoOoOoooooh...

[Bill Eh?]

49 minutes ago, Chuck Kourouklis said:

My God, I swear Hasegawa could announce the release of a half-scale dented can of Sapporo and I'd be like OoOoOoOoooooh...

From a Tamiya. Fujimi, Hasegawa, Aoshima junkie, I can totally relate to this!

[niteowl7710]

5 hours ago, Luc Janssens said:

Remember as a kid having a modelkit of this one, but don't remember which manufacturer and if it was a two or four door.

Tamiya is the only one to do a 4dr of this generation of Skyline, and it came with a Suzuki Gemma Scooter. Aoshima and Fujimi (along with two more kits from Tamiya) made all of the other coupe and racing versions. All three company's kits were made back at the time when these were new cars and therfore are each in their own way motorized dreck. 

[niteowl7710]

Aoshima has announced (for August delivery) URAS styled versions of their new tool 180SX

Difference between the two appears to be wheels and spoiler height, with the Work VS-KFs on the white car being new.

This comes on the heels of the recent (within the past two weeks) release of a factory stock 1989/1991 kit.

The 1991 car (top) was also done by Tamiya and Aoshima's body choice directly mimics that kit's box art. I don't believe anyone has directly replicated the "1st Gen" ('88/'89/'90) 180SX before.

Edited March 28 by niteowl7710

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Waitin' in the Warehouse, as they say...

[Spottedlaurel]

Great to see the R30. I've enjoyed building several examples of the 2/4dr Tamiya kit, but Fujimi's version saddens me.

Some years ago I also had an Otaki version which I thought looked OK for the standards of the time.

[niteowl7710]

So some of these things now have their own threads, but to keep it all self contained within this universal 2025 Show Thread...

Belkits announced Toyota Yaris WRC 2023 Rally Mexico Winner

[niteowl7710]

Tamiya announced the new 2025 Honda Prelude. The gimmick on this one is an opening hatch and a set of luggage and golf clubs for the rear. Rather disappointing to see this coming only as a RHD home market offering considering it will be sold globally.

Edited May 14 by niteowl7710

[niteowl7710]

Beemax showed prototypes of three 1/12 offerings which include 2007 Yamaha YZR-M1, the aforementioned Mazda 787B and a "mystery" offering - which is a Porsche 917 LH.

More to follow from their both as more images arrive.

 

[niteowl7710]

Aoshima has decided (and hey why not) to release several models attached to the Fast & the Furious properties. Two are modified reissues...

The other is a brand new tooling. Interesting to see them finally break away from reissuing that craptastic 1/25 AMT offering that has been their previous kit for this generation of Supra.

[niteowl7710]

While we're at the Aoshima booth, new entries into the 1/24 Snap Car line include an Evo III (which was mentioned on a sign back at the Tokyo show last fall) and 1997 Honda EK9 Civic Type R and 2024 Nissan 370Z NiSMO

Edited May 14 by niteowl7710

[niteowl7710]

Last one for this morning from Hasegawa test shots of the R30 Skyline, and a built production shot of the EF9 Civic in it's race trim. More photos from Hasegawa to come as more photos come in...today and tomorrow are Media days, so the majority of these photos have been either company provided or are courtesy of Model Art Magazine.

Edited May 14 by niteowl7710

[GoodbuildNY]

It blows my mind how well the above mentioned companies can get the proportions and accuracy on most of their kits but meanwhile Revell/Monogram have had how many attempts at an E-body ( cuda/ challenger) mopar and still can’t get them right, cutlass to name another one.  They did seem to nail the 71 mustang though 

[niteowl7710]

52 minutes ago, GoodbuildNY said:

It blows my mind how well the above mentioned companies can get the proportions and accuracy on most of their kits but meanwhile Revell/Monogram have had how many attempts at an E-body ( cuda/ challenger) mopar and still can’t get them right, cutlass to name another one.  They did seem to nail the 71 mustang though 

One of those three subjects was 3D scanned (Mustang), the other two weren't. 

 

[Mr mopar]

From Nunu BathHurst 12 Hours 

Edited May 15 by Mr mopar

[martinfan5]

Revell's Fendt Tractor parts trees

 

[martinfan5]

At the Beemax stand

And the underside of Aoshima's snapper EVO III kit

[tim boyd]

3 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

One of those three subjects was 3D scanned (Mustang), the other two weren't. 

, 

What James said. 

For the record, I strongly pushed Revell to scan for the 'cuda project, including providing them with specific scanning sources (and costs) used in the 1/1 scale industry, but their view at the time was that they could not afford the costs of scanning, and especially the costs of taking the scanned data and converting it into a usable file for a model kit tool.  This was around 2005 or so, and since then, scanning and processing costs have come down and a new leadership team is in charge at Revell.  All I can say is to thank you know who that they did the scanning and processed the data for the '71 Mustang tool (just so we are clear, my understanding is that the Revell team and contractor stateside were involved in that project, along with the Revell team in Germany).   

I have no insider knowledge on the Jag tool so I cannot comment one way or the other on the kit tooling development for that project.

TIM 

[niteowl7710]

5 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

At the Beemax stand

There's going to be an interesting story for this someday. This is a Toyota Celica ST205 Rally Car, which was supposed to be the next kit out of DModelkits as the follow up to the Ford Sierra 4x4 Sedan they did. The project was supposedly canceled, supposedly not, then supposedly was...but if you go on their website they're still taking pre-orders for it. Then today it magicly shows up on the BeeMaNuNu stand. If you find the couple of Beemax produced TikToks (Reels/Shorts) these tooling mockups were not on the stand when those were made.

People were of the opinion that the factory in China that does Belkits stuff was the one to tool the Sierra and Beemax's stuff is done in Macau...so who knows who owns what as it corresponds to this project at this point.

[Luc Janssens]

3 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

People were of the opinion that the factory in China that does Belkits stuff was the one to tool the Sierra and Beemax's stuff is done in Macau...so who knows who owns what as it corresponds to this project at this point.

IIRC it's a company in Macau which markets the IXO diecast range.